Maybe a key part of the first “Stimulus” was diverting hundreds of billions of dollars to bankroll the bribes and thugs to secure all the key people in this scheme. With a billion dollars you can just give it to someone–with suitable cutouts and cover of course, to pass at least a superficial smell test–buy what they want–drugs, children, weird sex, or whatever–or pay violent men really well to threaten and where needed hurt and kill people. You pick your target, do your assessment, then pick your method, all using public money–really, brand new created money that will inevitably lose value, but not before you spend it–then you execute the plan. This was most likely done months ago, although most of the system was most likely already under control.
And obviously, the first people you corrupted were the watchers, the people who might object, who might investigate, who might uncover and report what is going on: the FBI, the NSA, the CIA, and nearly all the media. You give your people everything they need to advance rapidly in those agencies.
Maybe this second round has so much for other nations so they pay bribes over there to get the right people into the right places, and to make sure the people who are in place are on board. They are not funding gender studies in Pakistan: they are paying bribes, providing drugs and weird sex, and intimidating people, all using the latest tech. The CIA as a global mafia.
This is most likely close to the truth. You don’t need everyone. You just need the people in the pivot points, and obviously most of Congress fell a long time ago.